Archive | February, 2012

On the morning of February 22nd, the State Board of Elections heard arguments relating to such weighty matters as a major labor union seriously under reporting donations; a Chicago Alderman accused of not filing campaign reports and a dispute between pro life/pro abortion groups…then they got to the matter of “Allen v. Zegel,” a frivolously filed time-waster.

Besides threatening what amounts to a boycott of businesses that advertise in The Winfield Register, Winfield Trustee Tim Allen also filed a complaint with the State Board of Elections in an attempt to get the State of Illinois to shut down The Register or attach fines or regulatory costs that would make publication prohibitively expensive. Trustee Allen claimed […]

Your support of this event and The Advocates of the Winfield Riverwalk [a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable organization] continues to raise raise funds for the engineering and construction of the Riverwalk in Town Center Winfield.

A full-house crowd was on hand last month at the library to hear naturalist Jack MacRae’s presentation about the rising coyote population in Winfield and surrounding areas.

According to Jack MacRae, coyotes began moving into our area in the 1970s and 80s. Ranging between the surrounding forest preserves and local backyards coyotes find a feast of squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks and other small game. The abundance of small game in Winfield, […]